OpenSS7 IPERF Utility

OpenSS7 IPERF Utility Installation and Reference Manual

About This Manual

This is Edition 8, last updated 2008-10-31, of The OpenSS7 IPERF Utility Installation and Reference Manual, for Version 2.0 release 8 of the OpenSS7 IPERF Utility package.

Preface

Notice

This package is released and distributed under the AGPL (see GNU Affero General Public License). Please note, however, that there are different licensing terms for the manual pages and some of the documentation (derived from OpenGroup¹ publications and other sources). Consult the permission notices contained in the documentation for more information.

Also note that portions of this software is derived from software developed by the University of Illinois covered under the UI License (see University of Illinois License).

This manual is released under the FDL (see GNU Free Documentation License) with no sections invariant.

Abstract

This manual provides a Installation and Reference Manual for OpenSS7 IPERF Utility.

Objective

The objective of this manual is to provide a guide for the network programmer when developing application programs for OpenSS7 IPERF Utility.

This guide provides information to developers on the use of the OpenSS7 IPERF Utility at user level.

Intent

The intent of this manual is to act as an introductory guide to the STREAMS programmer. It is intended to be read alone and is not intended to replace or supplement the OpenSS7 IPERF Utility manual pages. For a reference for writing code, the manual pages (see STREAMS(9)) provide a better reference to the programmer. Although this describes the features of the OpenSS7 IPERF Utility package, OpenSS7 Corporation is under no obligation to provide any software, system or feature listed herein.

Audience

This manual is intended for a highly technical audience. The reader should already be familiar with Linux network programming, the Linux file system, character devices, driver input and output, interrupts, software interrupt handling, scheduling, process contexts, multiprocessor locks, etc.

The guide is intended for network and systems programmers, who use the OpenSS7 IPERF Utility mechanism at user level for Linux and UNIX system communication services.

Readers of the guide are expected to possess prior knowledge of the Linux and UNIX system, programming, networking, and data communication.

Revisions

Take care that you are working with a current version of this manual: you will not be notified of updates. To ensure that you are working with a current version, contact the Author, or check The OpenSS7 Project website for a current version.

A current version of this manual is normally distributed with the OpenSS7 IPERF Utility package.

Version Control

     iperf.texi,v
     Revision 0.9.2.13  2008-09-20 11:04:24  brian
     - added package patchlevel
     
     Revision 0.9.2.12  2008-08-03 06:03:27  brian
     - protected agains texinfo commands in log entries
     
     Revision 0.9.2.11  2008/07/27 08:48:44  brian
     - no invariant sections, more libtool ignores
     
     Revision 0.9.2.10  2008-04-25 11:50:42  brian
     - updates to AGPLv3
     
     Revision 0.9.2.9  2007/08/12 06:43:41  brian
     - updated licenses in manuals
     
     Revision 0.9.2.8  2007/06/22 00:18:23  brian
     - mostly documentation updates for release, some netconfig workaround
     
     Revision 0.9.2.7  2007/02/28 06:30:18  brian
     - updates and corrections, #ifdef instead of #if
     
     Revision 0.9.2.6  2006/09/18 01:06:17  brian
     - updated manuals and release texi docs
     
     Revision 0.9.2.5  2006/08/28 10:46:53  brian
     - correction
     
     Revision 0.9.2.4  2006/08/28 10:32:44  brian
     - updated references
     
     Revision 0.9.2.3  2006/08/27 12:26:30  brian
     - finalizing auto release files
     
     Revision 0.9.2.2  2006/08/26 18:31:34  brian
     - handle long urls
     
     Revision 0.9.2.1  2006/08/26 14:41:37  brian
     - added manual
     

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Acknowledgements

As with most open source projects, this project would not have been possible without the valiant efforts and productive software of the Free Software Foundation and the Linux Kernel Community.

Sponsors

Funding for completion of the OpenSS7 OpenSS7 IPERF Utility package was provided in part by:

Additional funding for The OpenSS7 Project was provided by:

Contributors

The primary contributor to the OpenSS7 OpenSS7 IPERF Utility package is Brian F. G. Bidulock. The following is a list of significant contributors to The OpenSS7 Project:

Additional thanks to:

Authors

The authors of the OpenSS7 OpenSS7 IPERF Utility package include:

See Author Index, for a complete listing and cross-index of authors to sections of this manual.

Maintainer

The maintainer of the OpenSS7 OpenSS7 IPERF Utility package is:

Please send bug reports to bugs@openss7.org using the send-pr script included in the package, only after reading the BUGS file in the release, or See Problem Reports.

Web Resources

The OpenSS7 Project provides a website dedicated to the software packages released by the OpenSS7 Project.

Bug Reports

Please send bug reports to bugs@openss7.org using the send-pr script included in the OpenSS7 IPERF Utility package, only after reading the BUGS file in the release, or See Problem Reports. You can access the OpenSS7 GNATS database directly via the web, however, the preferred method for sending new bug reports is via mail with the send-pr script.

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